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Harvard Graduate Sleeps With Homeless; Tells Christians Don't Just Share Jesus With Them
A Christian scholar and Harvard graduate spent ten weeks sleeping on the streets with the homeless, and came back warning Christians not to just tell them about Jesus.
"I would encourage people to be authentic in the relationships they have – whether it's with homeless people or the couple next door," John Christopher Frame, a Harvard graduate and author of Homeless at Harvard: Finding Faith and Friendship on the Streets of Harvard Square, which came out last month, told The Christian Post in a Tuesday interview.
"It might be that if we seek to rush out to reach people with the Gospel, we may miss something," Frame explained. He stressed the complexity and value in every life, especially among the often misunderstood people who take to the streets.
The author said his book aims to bridge the gap between the homeless and most Americans' "ordinary lives." He sees a stratified society, with a great deal of misplaced judgment and animosity towards those who sleep on the streets. He called Christians to study their motivations and realize the complexities in their own lives, before characterizing other people.
One character in Frame's book, a homeless man named Dane, left school after 4th grade but still has "a great education," due to his voracious reading and driving passion for knowledge. "When he was driving a cab, a passenger – a professor at Yale – mistook him for having a PhD," the author noted.
Nevertheless, Dane suffered from a cocaine addiction, a divorce, and a brief stint in prison. "His life is one that fits the mold exactly," Frame admitted, but his active mind confounds the "homeless" stereotype.
"His ability to reflect on his life is to be commended," the author explained. In this way, Dane may serve as a role model for Christians and non-Christians, whom Frame said he hopes will mature into the kind of servants "the world needs."
The author also warned that homelessness is more widespread than most Americans realize. "Maybe it's someone who lost their job and is living with a relative and, thus, secretly homeless," he explained. The lives of the homeless, he claimed, do not drastically differ from our own.
"My hope is that people who read the book will better understand that people who are homeless have stories, and that the misconceptions they might have about homeless people – or anyone, for that matter – may very well be wrong," Frame said.
A better understanding of the struggles of the homeless should prepare Christians to love both God and neighbor more fully, the author argued. He said he hopes the book will "help them to better engage the people in their communities, and serve God and others in better ways."
A master's graduate from Harvard Divinity School, Frame is currently studying non-profit organizations in Cambodia with his wife. Readers can learn more about his book at Frame's website, http://www.homelessatharvard.org.


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Sony recently announced the new Sony Xperia U smartphone at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 in Barcelona. This handset runs on the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating System. However, the device will be upgraded to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) during the second quarter of 2012. It is the third smartphone in the new Sony Xperia NXT series.
Sony Xperia U features a 3.5 inch Reality display, 1 Ghz dual-core processor, Google Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS (upgradable to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich), 5 megapixel camera, Bluetooth technology, DLNA Certified, HDMI support, Micro USB, NFC (Near Field Communication), USB 2.0, microSD card slot, 32 GB expandable memory, 3.5 mm audio jack, FM radio with RDS, GPS with aGPS, 3G Connectivity, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Android Market and more.
The complete specs of this device is not available yet. The Sony Xperia U will be available from mid-Q2 of 2012. Sony has not yet announced the price of this handset. We will soon post the complete specs and official pics of this device. Stay tuned for more MWC 2012 updates.
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The Minnesota Lawyer Blog reports on the most recent appointment to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Judge John P. Smith was appointed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Smith will replace Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright, who was appointed earlier this year to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Smith has served on the Ninth District Court for over 21 years. He was appointed to the bench by Gov. Arne Carlson in 1991, and has served as chief judge and assistant chief judge. He has is currently president of the Minnesota District Judges Association.
via John Smith appointed to Court of Appeals – MinnLawyer Blog.


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A while back mdz blogged about challenges facing Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. He raises the point that runtime libraries for Python / Ruby etc have a unique set of issues because they tend to have their own packaging systems. Merely a month later he attended Debconf 2010 where a presentation was given on the issues that Java packages have on Dpkg based systems. Since then the conversation seems to have dried up. I've been reminded of it recently in discussions within Canonical looking at how we deploy web services.
Matt suggested some ways forward, including:
- Decouple applications from the core
- Treat data as a service (rather than packages) – get data live from the web rather than going web -> distro-package -> user machines.
- Simplify integration between packaging systems (including non-packaged things)
I think its time we revisit and expand on those points. Nothing much has changed in how Ubuntu or other distributions approach integration with other packaging systems… but the world has kept evolving. Internet access is growing ever more ubiquitous, more platforms are building packaging systems – clojure, scala, node.js, to name but three, and a substantial and ever growing number of products expect to operate in a hybrid fashion with an evolving web service plus a local client which is kept up to date via package updates. Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus are three such products. Android has demonstrated a large scale app store on top of Linux, with its own custom packaging format.
In order to expand them, we need some background context on the use cases that these different packaging systems need to support.
Platforms such as antivirus scanners, node.js, Python, Clojure and so forth care a great deal about getting their software out to their users. They care about making it extremely easy to get the latest and greatest versions of their libraries. I say this because the evidence is all around us: every successful development community / product has built a targeted package management system which layers on top of Windows, and Mac OSX, and *nux. The only rational explanation I can come up for this behaviour is that the lower level operating system package management tools don't deliver what they need. E.g. this isn't as shallow as wanting a packaging system written in their own language, which would be easy to write off as parochialism rather than a thoughtful solution to their problems.
In general packaging systems provide a language for shipping source or binary form, from one or more repositories, to users machines. They may support replications, and they may support multiple operating systems. They generally end up as graph traversal engines, pulling in dependencies of various sorts – you can see the DOAP specification for an attempt at generic modelling of this. One problem that turns up rapidly when dealing with Linux distribution package managers is that the versions upstream packages have, and the versions a package has in e.g. Debian, differ. They differ because at some stage, someone will need to do a new package for the distribution when no upstream change has been made. This might be to apply a local patch, or it might be to correct a defect caused by a broken build server. Whatever the cause, there is a many to one relationship between the package versions that end users see via dpkg / rpm etc, and those that upstream ship. It is a near certainty that once this happens to a library package, that comparing package versions across different distribution packages becomes hard. You cannot reliably infer whether a given package version is sufficient as a dependency or not, when comparing binary packages between Red Hat and Debian. Or Debian and Ubuntu. The result of this is that even when the software (e.g. rpm) is available on multiple distributions (say Ubuntu and RHEL), or even on multiple operating systems (say Ubuntu and Windows), that many packages will /have/ to be targeted specifically to build and execute properly. (Obviously, compilation has to proceed separately for different architectures, its more the depedency metadata that says 'and build with version X of dependency Y' that has to be customised).
The result of this is that there is to the best of my knowledge no distribution of binary packages that targets Debian/Ubuntu and RHEL and Suse and Windows and Mac OS X, although there are vibrant communities building distributions of and for each in isolation. Some of the ports systems come close, but they are still focused on delivering to a small number of platforms. There's nothing that gives 99% coverage of users. And that means that to reach all their users, they have to write or adopt a new system. For any platform X, there is a strong pressure to have the platform be maintainable by folk that primarily work with X itself, or with the language that X is written in. Consider Python – there is strong pressure to use C, or Python, and nothing else, for any tools – that is somewhat parochial, but also just good engineering – reducing variables and making the system more likely to be well maintained. The closest system I know of – Steam – is just now porting to Ubuntu (and perhaps Linux in general), and has reached its massive popularity by focusing entirely on applications for Windows, with Mac OSX a recent addition.
Systems like pypi which have multi platform eggs do target the wide range of platforms I listed above, but they do so both narrowly and haphazardly: whether a binary or source package is available for a given platform is up to the maintainer of the package, and the packages themselves are dealing with a very narrow subset of the platforms complexity: Python provides compilation logic, they don't create generic C libraries with stable ABI's for use by other programs, they don't have turing complete scripts for dealing with configuration file management and so forth. Anti virus updaters similarly narrow the problem they deal with, and add constraints on latency- updates of anti virus signatures are time sensitive when a new rapidly spreading threat is detected.
A minor point, but it adds to the friction of considering a single packaging tool for all needs is the different use cases of low level package management tools like dpkg or rpm vs the use cases that e.g. pypi has. A primary use case for packages on pypi is for them to be used by people that are not machine administrators. They don't have root, and don't want it. Contrast that with dpkg or rpm where the primary use case (to date) is the installation of system wide libraries and tools. Things like man page installation don't make any sense for non-system-wide package systems, whereas they are a primary feature for e.g. dpkg.
In short, the per-platform/language tools are (generally):
- Written in languages that are familiar to the consumers of the tools.
- Targeted at use on top of existing platforms, by non-privileged users, and where temporary breakage is fine.
- Intended to get the software packaged in them onto widely disparate operating systems.
- Very narrow – they make huge assumptions about how things can fit together, which their specific language/toolchain permits, and don't generalise beyond that.
- Don't provide for security updates in any specific form: that is left up to folk that ship individual things within the manager.
operating system package managers:
- Are written in languages which are very easy to bootstrap onto an architecture, and to deploy onto bare metal (as part of installation).
- Designed for delivering system components, and to avoid be able to upgrade the toolchain itself safely.
- Originally built to install onto one operating system, ports to other operating systems are usually fragile and only adopted in niche.
- Are hugely broad – they install data, scripts, binaries, and need to know about late binding, system caches etc for every binary and runtime format the operating system supports
- Make special provision to allow security updates to be installed in a low latency fashion, without requiring anything consuming the package that is updated to change [but usually force-uninstalling anything that is super-tightly coupled to a library version].
Anti virus package managers:
- Exist to update daemons that run with system wide escalated privileges, or even file system layer drivers.
- Update datasets in realtime.
- Without permitting updates that are produced by third parties.
Given that, lets look at the routes Matt suggested…
Decoupling applications from the core as a strategy makes an assumption – that the core and applications are partitionable. If they are not, then applications and the core will share common elements that need to be updated together. Consider, for instance, a Python application. If you run with a system installed Python, and it is built without zlib for some reason, but the Python application requires zlib, you have a problem. A classic example of this problem is facing Ubuntu today, with all the system provided tools moving to Python 3, but vast swathes of Python applications still being unported to Python 3 at all. Currently, the Python packaging system – virtualenv/buildout + distribute – don't provide a way to install the Python runtime itself, but will happily install their own components for everything up the stack from the runtime. Ubuntu makes extensive use of Python for its own tools, so the system Python has a lot of packages installed which buildout etc cannot ignore – this often leads to issues with e.g. buildout, when the bootstrap environment has (say) zope.interfaces, but its then not accessible from the built-out environment that disables the standard sys.path (to achieve more robust separation). If we want to pursue decoupling, whether we build a new package manager or use e.g. virtualenv (or gem or npm or …), we'll need to be aware of this issue – and perhaps offer, for an extended time, a dedicated no-frills, no-distro-packages install, to avoid it, and to allow an extended supported period for application authors without committing to a massive, distro sponsored porting effort. While its tempting to say we should install pip/npm/lein/maven and other external package systems, this is actually risky: they often evolve sufficiently fast that Ubuntu will be delivering an old, incompatible version of the tool to users well before Ubuntu goes out of support, or even befor the next release of Ubuntu.
Treating data as a service. All the cases I've seen so far of applications grabbing datasets from the web have depended on web infrastructure for validating the dataset. E.g. SSL certificates, or SSL + content checksums. Basically, small self-rolled distribution systems. I'm likely ignorant of details here, and I depend on you, dear reader, to edumacate me. There is potential value in having data repackaged, when our packaging system has behind-firewall support, and the adhoc system that (for instance) a virus scanner system has does not. In this case, I specifically mean the problem of updated a machine which has no internet access, not even via a proxy. The challenge I see it is again the cross platform issue: The vendor will be supporting Ubuntu + Debian + RHEL + Suse, and from their perspective its probably cheaper to roll their own solution than to directly support dpkg + rpm + whatever Apple offer + Windows – the skills to roll an adhoc distribution tool are more common than the skills to integrate closely with dpkg or rpm…
What about creating a set of interfaces for talking to dpkg / rpm / the system packagers on Windows and Mac OSX ? Here I think there is some promise, but it needs – as Matt said – careful thought. PackageKit isn't sufficient, at least today.
There are, I think, two specific cases to cater to:
- The anti-virus / fresh data set case.
- The egg/gem/npm/ specific case.
For the egg/gem/npm case, we would need to support a pretty large set of common functionality, on Windows/Mac OSX / *nux (because otherwise upstream won't adopt what we create: losing 90% of their users (windows) or 5% (mac) isn't going to be well accepted 🙂 . We'd need to support multiple installations (because of mutually incompatible dependencies between applications), and we'd need to support multiple language bindings in some fashion – some approachable fashion where the upstream will feel capable of fixing and tweaking what we offer. We're going to need to support offline updates, replication, local builds, local repositories, and various signing strategies – to match the various tradeoffs made by the upstream tools.
For the anti-virus / fresh data case, we'd need to support a similar set of operating systems, though I strongly suspect that there would be more tolerance for limited support – in that most things in that space either have very platform specific code, or they are just a large-scale form of the egg/gem/npm problem, which also wants easy updates.
What next?
We should validate this discussion with at least two or three upstreams. Find out whats missing – I suspect a lot – and whats wrong – I hope not much :). Then we'll be in a position to decide if there is a tractable, widespread solution *possible*.
Separately, we should stop fighting with upstreams that have their own packaging systems. They are satisfying different use cases than our core distro packaging systems are designed to solve. We should stop mindlessly repackaging things from e.g. eggs to debs, unless we need that specific thing as part of the transitive runtime or buildtime dependencies for the distribution itself. In particular, if us folk that build system packaging tools adopt and use the upstream application packaging tools, we can learn in a deep way the (real) advantages they have, and become more able to reason about how to unify the various engineering efforts going into them – and perhaps even eventually satisfy them using dpkg/rpm on our machines.


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Game Summary
Karl Alzner scored his first of the season off of a nice slapper from the point to beat Nikolai Khabibulan over the shoulder. Joel Ward set the screen and the Oilers goaltender froze from the distraction. It would be the Caps high water mark in the game despite some heroic effort in the third period to try to tie up the game.
Oilers net minder Khabibulan only needed one good period and he was fantastic in the third. The Caps out shot the Oilers 18-6 in the final period and dominated the play for the most part. But shot after shot was turned away by the Edmonton goaltender. He was spectacular killing off a pair of late penalties for the Oilers. For all the offensive power the Caps poured on in the final period, it was all for not as Khabby got hot late.
The Caps inability to stay out of the box in the second period and having to play catch up for the rest of the game ends their winning streak at seven games. The power play did not see the time it could have, or should have, in this game but it is clear they miss number 52 back on the blue line.
Mike Green sat out for a tweeked ankle and the Caps seemed to miss the quarterback for timely break outs and setting up the power play. They missed his sneaks up the back side on the power play that kept the top penalty killer honest. The power play instead was a mortal 0 for 4.
A lot of this game could be excused away as unfair officiating as the Caps were called for 8 penalties including 5 calls in the second period alone. Four of them were hooking calls, some legit, some borderline. But the Caps just did not make good decisions on the ice and in the end it cost them. Credit the Caps' penalty killers for only allowing two power play goals against as it could have easily been 4-1 or 5-1 at the end of the second period.
Both of the Oilers goals came off of the power play. A tic-tac-toe passing play on the 5 on 3 goal, and a defensive break down and a juicy rebound on the second 5 on 4 goal. Both goals hard to avoid, but good lessons for the Caps to learn. Winning streaks sometimes hides imperfections and the Caps can use this game as a teaching tool, a lesson learned on their way through the season.
Caps catch up with the Western Conference Champs Saturday night and will have to bring a better game with them to Vancouver. The power play will have to reconfigure itself to better create chances with out Green on the back end.
Caps Notes:
- Alex Ovechkin had six shots in attempt to get the tying goal. But Khabibulan turned aside all six. Alex Semin went through most of the game with out a registered shot on net through most of the game until he snapped two on net in the third.
- Nine different Capitals were called for penalties, 5 penalties were stick infractions (4 hooking, 1 slash), 2 were delay of game (hand covering puck, puck over glass), a diving call and a holding the stick call.
- Green is still questionable for Saturday night, Jay Beagle remains a scratch with a concussion.


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Lucy Lippard
Lucy Lippard is a distinguished writer, curator, editor, lecturer, and activist who has long been appreciated for her expansive scholarship and insight, having been one of the first to recognize the dematerialization of the work in art's movement toward conceptualism as well as an early champion of feminist art. The author of 21 books, curator of 50 exhibitions, cofounder of Printed Matter Inc., the Heresies Collective, Political Art Documentation/Distribution, Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, and other artists' organizations, Lippard has received eight honorary doctorates in fine arts as well as numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Criticism, two National Endowment for the Arts grants in criticism, the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA) Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Bard College Award for Curatorial Excellence. Of Lippard's book, The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, Thomas Hine wrote for the New York Times Book Review, "Lippard overwhelms us with the breadth of her reading and the comprehensiveness with which she considers the things that define place. . . . In its final section, The Lure of the Local is revealed as a sort of art book after all. Its intent is to explore the many things that those who make art or who make judgments about art should think about when they consider art that seeks to be 'contextual,' 'site-specific,' or 'place making'." Lippard's most recent book is Down Country: The Tano of the Galisteo Basin 1250–1782, for which she received the Caroline Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library.
For Tuesday Evenings, Lippard presents Undermining, touching on photography, the new West, development, water, and land art, as she discusses pits and erections (gravel pits and skyscrapers), and more.


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And thank God too. Lord only knows what chilling bills can be racked up via stolen credit cards. UK criminal, Suhail Tufail, put more than 7 000 debit and credit cards in the red thanks to purchases worth 750 000£ and the help of 4 other dodgy geezers. The group of five who used stolen credit cards to buy iTunes vouchers, make Gizmodo's Jason Chen look like Little Riding hood. Fortunately, the UK's big bad police have put these badboys behind bars. Apple's products and services have been the target of criminals before and thanks to their cute industrial designs, will be again.
Morale of the story: don't always jump at good-looking deals on eBay – you could be stealing someone else's money. If it was yours, you'd probably hope for a little courtesy. Batten down the hatches ladies and germs, it's criminality time!
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Michael-Carter Williams had 15 points and a career-high 16 assists, C.J. Fair had 14 points and 10 rebounds, the second straight double-double for both players, and No. 4 Syracuse beat Monmouth of New Jersey 108-56 on Saturday night.
Syracuse (8-0) has won 28 straight home games, the longest streak in the nation, and 50 straight nonconference games in the regular season. Monmouth (5-5), which had won four of five, is 0-42 against teams from the Big East.
Carter-Williams, who also had five steals and four blocks, has reached double digits in assists five times and his 83 assists are 29 more than he had his entire freshman season.
His total for the game was the third-highest in school history, behind only Sherman Douglas (22) and Pearl Washington (18).
Brandon Triche had 18 points and eight of the Orange's 30 assists, Trevor Cooney had a career-high 15 points as he went 5 of 9 from behind the arc, and James Southerland finished with 14.
Rakeem Christmas added 11 points and four blocks, and freshman Dajuan Coleman had 11 points and a season-high 14 rebounds as Syracuse dominated the glass 63-38, including 25-12 on the offensive glass.
Ed Waite, who had a career-high 23 points at Binghamton on Monday, led the Hawks with 10 points and Gary Cox had nine. Andrew Nicholas, Monmouth's leading scorer at 15.7 points per game, finished with five.
Syracuse overcame a slow start - the Orange hit only 8 of their first 22 shots - and finished 42 of 82 from the floor. The Orange hit 11 of 30 from long range, blocked 14 shots and had 12 steals. Monmouth shot 21 of 66 (31.8 percent)
The Hawks' small lineup figured to be a problem and was. Monmouth's tallest starter was the 6-foot-6 Nicholas, the same as Orange point guard Carter-Williams, but the Hawks were game and hung tough at the outset.
Monmouth shrugged off the Orange's 2-3 zone and early press and led 13-12 on the 6-foot-5 Cox's dunk over the 6-9 Christmas at 13:07.
But after Max DiLeo's free throw tied the game at 19, the Orange took off, dominating inside and hitting six from beyond the arc.
Triche's 3-pointer and another by Carter-Williams sent Syracuse on a 30-6 run as the Orange outscored the Hawks 38-9 to close the half.
Syracuse had eight blocks in the half and they took a toll. Carter-Williams and Fair registered consecutive blocks on the same possession and Southerland converted a three-point play at the other end for a 35-21 lead with 6:07 left.
After Cooney made his second 3 of the period, he tried again the next time down the court and threw up an air ball. No problem. Fair snared the rebound and put it in.
Less than two minutes later, Christmas blocked Ed Waite's shot at the rim and Cooney hit another 3 to boost the lead to 47-25.
Coleman scored six straight points and Triche's driving layup gave Syracuse a 57-28 lead at the break.
The onslaught continued at the start of the second half. Syracuse scored the first 13 points, giving them 21 in a row and 51 in a span of 11:26.
The Hawks allowed three opponents to score 100 points last season, a first for the program. Syracuse was the first to do it this season.
Monmouth played the game without head coach King Rice. In his second season, the former standout at Binghamton High School in southern New York was suspended for one game for his actions and comments critical of the officials after a game with Navy.
Rice, who was ejected with less than two minutes to play in the Hawks' 85-66 loss on Wednesday night, was replaced by assistant Rick Callahan, who was born in Syracuse and started his career as a graduate assistant in 1980 under Orange coach Jim Boeheim.


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Since the beginning of the Post Office and the Postal Act of 1792, certain types of mail have qualified for lower postage through preferred rates. It was assumed that these types of mailings yield social benefits for senders, recipients, and more importantly, a large nation. Preferred rates' roots trace to the first federal postal policy, which recognized that disseminating newspapers at below-cost postage would advance the important social goal of educating the electorate. Soon after, magazines received special rates. For its first 50 years, the Post Office was predominantly a newspaper circulation service, because of the high cost of sending letter mail. (Sending a one-sheet letter 500 miles cost 25 cents, while sending a newspaper that distance cost only 1½ cents.)
As the Post Office evolved over the next century, so too did the rates it charged for various types of mail. Regular letter mail rates were lowered to be more in line with the newspaper rate. Still, Congress considered a preferred rate for socially important mail to be so crucial it extended eligibility to more types of mail. A class structure was introduced to organize the types of mail. In 1894, Congress allowed nonprofit organizations to send their publications at second-class rates, the rates for newspapers and magazines. That statutory language evolved to create the nonprofit subclass in Second Class, a class now known as Periodicals. In the late 1920s, Congress added Library Mail as a preferred rate for mail sent to or from libraries. In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created a preferred rate for all books that is now known as Media Mail. In 1951, after 2 years of deliberation and strong appeals by charities and philanthropic groups, Congress created a nonprofit subclass in Third Class, today's Standard Mail.
When all of these preferred rates were established, congressional appropriations funded the Postal Service's operations. And even until 1993, Congress appropriated funds to reimburse the Postal Service for revenues it lost by providing below-commercial rates for certain types of preferred mail. Today, the Postal Service receives only a small appropriation for free mail for the blind and overseas voting. All other costs are borne by mailers.
At times, Congress has reconsidered the public policy benefits of preferred mail in light of the potential for abuse and in consideration of the Postal Service's financial condition. As we again dive into reform of the Postal Service, is it time to reconsider the modern application of preferred postage rates? Since the Postal Service uses revenues from postage to fund operations, can it afford to offer some types of mailings reduced postage through preferred rates? Or, does the nation continue to benefit when certain types of mail qualify for preferred rates?
How should preferred categories be selected? Do you agree with the current categories or should other types of mail qualify for preferred rates?


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You yourself brought up the idea, that Gherardo Starnina ...mikeh wrote: So you are exploring the hypothesis that Alfonso gave the cards to Joan/Jeanne, perhaps as part of the festivities of 1423, and then after Jeanne's death the cards went to her mother's family, which would explain how they were in that family's possession in the 18th century. It's a long shot but worthy of consideration. How would Alfonso have commissioned the cards, which still seem Florentine (and I still think the dal Ponte workshop)? Through commercial contacts between Aragon, or Sicily, and Tuscany? Through Ferrara? Through contacts in Florence (which at that time, until his alliance with Visconti, might have been neutral to him.) I do not see how they could be Aragonese cards, but what do I know? Also, I would like a link to something detailing Alfonso's festivities of 1423, which I presume happened before relations soured between him and Jeanne.
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... brought an influence to Giovanni dal Ponte.
From Spain, where Starnina had lived a long time.
Possibly the style of the cards (with were recognized as similar to the style of Giovanni dal Ponte) was a general Spanish style for some time. Then an unknown Spanish artists might have caused the similarity and we would be independent from the person of Giovanni dal Ponte or Starnina.
Barcelona had a strong role in the early production of playing cards, there are enough documents.
I've have a very vague memory about a statement, according which "cards with golden background" were already known in Spain before the Italian Visconti cards. I don't know, who made this statement nor I can refer to the source. Naturally I can't say, if this was a valuable contribution. I'm even in doubt, if my memory about this statement.
But if this statement would be right ...
We have 3 times very curious prices in the Italian playing card development ...
1418-1425 ... 1500 ducats
1423 ... Gabella (Ferrara) 40 ducats
1423 ... 8 Imperatori cards (Ferrara) ... if these cards were really only 8 cards, these cards would be very expensive
Later Ferrarese prices later by far never reach the dimensions of these cards in this period. Perhaps one can assume, that in this short period a novelty in matters of luxury cards appeared in Italy, which was first "very expensive" and later normalized by competition and technical improvements. "Golden background" might have been a key element in this short-time-development. If Spain had the golden background for cards earlier than Italy ... then the appearance of Alfonso in Italy might have played an important role.
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Drawing and Other Writing
by SE Barnet and Sally Morfill
including a performance from SE Barnet and David Buuck
and a film by Sally Morfill and Ana Čavić
Through the work of SE Barnet and Sally Morfill, the Everyday Press publication Drawing and Other Writing offers a look at how meaning is formed and interpreted when we make a mark. The practices of these two artists include a range of influences and source material; from the Mass Observation archive to Henri Michaux's alphabet of lines. Additionally, artists Ana Čavić and Louisa Minkin have contributed work to the book.
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NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees' latest assault on a prestigious NFL passing record lifted the embattled New Orleans Saints to their first victory of the season.
Brees broke a half-century-old record by throwing a touchdown pass in his 48th straight game, and the Saints defeated the San Diego Chargers 31-24 on Sunday night.
Brees' 40-yard pass to Devery Henderson eclipsed the mark of 47 consecutive games with a touchdown pass set by Johnny Unitas from 1956-60.
"First of all it's a team record, not an individual record. So many people were responsible for this, coaches and people in the organization," Brees said. "Certainly the man who held this record stands for everything great in this league. It couldn't have happened in a better way."
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Brees finished with four touchdown passes, including three to Marques Colston, giving the seventh-year receiver a franchise-record 52 TD catches with the Saints (1-4).
At Brees' request, the NFL allowed head coach Sean Payton, assistant head coach Joe Vitt and general manager Mickey Loomis — all serving various suspensions in connection with the NFL's bounty investigation — to attend the game. They and Unitas' son, Joe, saw Brees pass for 370 yards.
"It gave us a good mojo for sure," Brees said of Payton's presence. "I love my coach, so glad he could be here. Mickey and Joe Vitt as well. It is special for our team, special they could be a part of this record.
"We finally put together a great team effort for all four quarters. I can't say enough for the guys in our locker room," Brees said. "We have been through a lot together. Hopefully this will lead to more wins."
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, the one who suspended Saints personnel in the bounty matter but also granted Brees' request for Payton, Vitt and Loomis to attend the game, chimed in on social media to offer his own congratulations.
On his Twitter page, Goodell wrote: "Congrats to @drewbrees & his teammates on breaking Unitas' record. Amazing accomplishment by great QB & leader. We're proud of you, Drew."
Philip Rivers passed for 354 yards and two touchdowns to former Saint Robert Meachem, but had two costly turnovers in the final quarter.
The first was Roman Harper's interception and 41-yard return on a pass tipped by fellow safety Malcolm Jenkins. That set up the Saints' final score on Garrett Hartley's 25-yard field goal. San Diego (3-2) still had a chance to tie in the final minute when defensive end Martez Wilson stripped Rivers and recovered the fumble to seal the victory.
After his record-setting completion, Brees galloped to the end zone to hug Henderson. The rest of New Orleans' offence pursued and swarmed around Brees in celebration while the jubilant Superdome crowd roared and then howled an elongated, "Dreeeeeeew!"
Brees took the game ball to the sideline where he continued to accept congratulations. The scoring pass capped an 80-yard drive in which Brees completed all three of his third-down passes, including the touchdown connection with Henderson.
Colston finished with nine catches for 131 yards, while Henderson had eight catches for 123 yards.
Colston's second TD late in the third quarter eclipsed a franchise mark set by Joe Horn in 2006 and pulled the Saints back within a field goal shortly after the Chargers appeared to have gone ahead 31-14 on Demorrio Williams' interception return for a touchdown. Williams' TD was nullified, however, by Melvin Ingram's late hit on Brees' chin, which drew a roughing-the-passer flag and extended what wound up to be an 87-yard scoring drive.
Vitt is expected to take over the coaching staff when his six-game suspension ends. Loomis was docked eight games. As the Saints headed into their bye week, the desperately needed win offered hope, however faint, of making a playoff run when Vitt and Loomis are back.
Rivers staked San Diego to a 7-0 lead with a 15-yard touchdown pass over the middle to Meachem, marking the former Saints receiver's first touchdown since signing with the Chargers as a free agent last winter.
San Diego moved ahead 10-7 on Nick Novak's 20-yard field goal, a disappointment for the Chargers after Saints cornerback Jabari Greer was called for pass interference against Malcom Floyd at the New Orleans six. Novak, filling in for injured kicker Nate Kaeding, later missed a 55-yard attempt.
Colston made his first touchdown catch on a pass Brees lofted perfectly to the back of the end zone. That gave New Orleans a 14-10 lead that lasted until Meachem's 44-yard touchdown catch in the final minute of the half.
San Diego went ahead 24-14 on Ryan Mathews' 13-yard run around left end, capping a three-play drive that started when Henderson tipped a pass that Brees threw behind him, allowing Quentin Jammer to intercept it and give San Diego the ball on the New Orleans 25.
Greer left the game with what team officials said was a hip injury. He was hurt late in the second quarter and did not return.


text: Front/Rear Camera Touchscreen Switch Kit The Front/Rear Camera Touchscreen Switch Kit was developed by two Model S owners with input from the members of TMC. When the kit is installed it provides the same high-definition view on the touchscreen for the front of the car that is provided for the rear of the car by the rear camera. With a Tesla rear camera mounted in the front of the car, the switch makes it possible to switch from rear to front view when parking your Model S. The front view has the same wide angle of sight as the rear camera and the same high-definition resolution. With a camera mounted on the front of the car the switch will obviate the need for front parking sensors, as a driver will be able to see on the touchscreen any obstacles that might damage the front bumper or any other part of the front of the Model S. The kit is ideal for owners who bought cars prior to the time the Tesla parking sensors were available as well as those who would like to have an extra measure of protection beyond that provided by the parking sensors. The YouTube videos below show the switch in operation on the touchscreen: The kit includes the PCB switch itself, mounted in a plastic case, with all components to make it operational, including a wireless remote control that can synced with HomeLink, so switching from rear to front view can be done with via the touch screen. The kit also includes an OBD2 connector that offers a simple way to provide the necessary 12v power and ground connections to the switch. The photos show a hand-lettered prototype for the PCB switch case. The production version, even though it will be completely hidden after installation, will be professionally lettered. Installation of a fully operational Front/Rear Camera Touchscreen Switch requires that buyers also purchase separately the following: Tesla rear camera, part #1006773-00-E. The camera can be ordered from any Tesla Service Center. The cost is about $350. A cable set to connect the front and rear cameras to the PCB switch and the PCB switch to the touchscreen. The cable set can be purchased from RFsupplier, a Chinese cable manufacturer, and includes three cables: one long cable for connecting the front camera to the switch and two short cables for connecting the rear camera to the switch and the switch to the touchscreen cable. The kit is $54.50. The cable kit can be ordered using this link: http://www.rfsupplier.com/tesla-front-camera-cable-p-2084.html The camera switch PCB case is mounted in the space behind the driver's side dashboard, which is accessible by removing the small triangular flap on the left end of the dash. The switch is plug-and play and full installation instructions with photographs are be provided with each kit. Installation will be fairly easy for experienced DYI types and very easy for any aftermarket installation shop. The pre-production Front/Rear Camera Touchscreen Switch kit price is $225. This price is based on an initial production run of 100 kits and order for at least 50 kits. If a higher number of orders is placed the price will decrease. For example, for 100 orders the price would fall to about $125.00. But for only 25 orders the price would rise to about $450.00. Orders will be taken until Saturday, April 5, 2014 . The final price will be based on the number of pre-production orders actually placed by that time. Production of the PCBs will begin at that time and shipment of orders will begin around the beginning of May. If the final price is lower than the pre-production cost of $225, refunds will be made before shipment. On the other hand if the final price is higher, an additional payment will be required before shipment. List Date: 3/19/2014 For more info, click here to view the original listing: Front/Rear Camera Touchscreen Switch Kit -------------------------------------- This item is no longer available. --------------------------------------


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State representative Jim Cole will be appointed Secretary of State, according to the AJC.
Cole currently represents northeast Lamar County. He is Gov.Sonny Perdue's floor leader in the state house of representatives. A special election will be held at some point to fill his unexpired house term which ends one year from today.
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Here are select July 2012 rulings of the Supreme Court of the Philippines on labor law and procedure:
Dismissal; due process. Due process requirement is met when there is simply an opportunity to be heard and to explain one's side even if no hearing is conducted. An employee may be afforded ample opportunity to be heard by means of any method, verbal or written, whether in a hearing, conference or some other fair, just and reasonable way. After receiving the first notice apprising him of the charges against him, the employee may submit a written explanation (which may be in the form of a letter, memorandum, affidavit or position paper) and offer evidence in support thereof, like relevant company records and the sworn statements of his witnesses. For this purpose, he may prepare his explanation personally or with the assistance of a representative or counsel. He may also ask the employer to provide him copy of records material to his defense. His written explanation may also include a request that a formal hearing or conference be held. In such a case, the conduct of a formal hearing or conference becomes mandatory, just as it is where there exist substantial evidentiary disputes or where company rules or practice requires an actual hearing as part of employment pre-termination procedure.


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26th July 2018, New York, NY
Textile manufacturers, designers, product R&D specialists, and other sourcing professionals came together for the combined Texworld USA, Apparel Sourcing USA, and Home Textile Sourcing Expo trade shows at the Javits Center in New York City, which took place from July 22nd to July 24th.
On display were the latest innovations and trend proposals for Fall 19/20 from over 800 mills and manufacturers representing 19 countries. The show was organized into 20 different product groups spanning a broad range of materials from functional outerwear, lace, and polyester prints to linings and trim.
Sustainability and eco-friendly signage was prominent throughout the show with many exhibitors seeking to leverage this growing trend.
In addition to trend forecasting services, textile education materials, and sourcing solutions, some of the most interesting services and products in the sustainability space were those being featured in the "Resource Row" section.
Among the exhibitors was Fab Scrap, a non-profit organization founded by self-described "trash nerd" Jessica Schreiber who works with over 200 design houses like Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta, Eileen Fisher, and J. Crew to collect, sort, and prepare their textile waste so it can be sent to recycling facilities and repurposed into new raw materials. Fab Scrap has recycled over 150,000lbs of waste from the design side alone since it was founded in 2016. The team plans to double their impact by expanding services into L.A. within the next year and to eventually increase their capacity to collect post-industrial waste from the factory side as well. To support their mission, students volunteer their time in exchange for 5lbs of fabric scraps for use in their own school projects and materials designated as non-proprietary are made available for purchase in Fab Scrap's own store on site at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
Bright Label works with apparel companies who seek greater transparency in their supply chain. They are able to customize hangtags with QR codes, which can be scanned by customers to receive immediate information on a garment's lifecycle. Co-founders Bruce Thomson and Jeremy Harris liken the tags to nutrition labels on food packaging and envision full-traceability from farm to store as the norm in the fashion industry. Their technology allows global governing bodies to easily identify and verify certification claims and can also help validate a brand's mission and story.
Heisel, a 3D printing lab and product development resource for the apparel industry, enables companies to engage in rapid proto-typing to test new concepts in trims, jewelry, and other accessories. They are currently working with a large company to 3D print sustainable textiles.
In response to the growing request for US-based production resources, show organizers launched "Local Loft," highlighting a small, focused selection of domestic apparel factories, contractors, and niche service providers like Suite Creative Studio design consulting and Nightwear Studios which specializes in pattern and sample making for swimwear, intimates, and activewear.
Mountain Meadow Wool is a domestic yarn spinner committed to revitalizing the American wool industry while maintaining eco-friendly operations. They work with ranchers in and around Wyoming to collect their raw materials, which they then sort, scour and spin into premium hand and machine knitting yarns in their own facility. In a move to become fully vertical, they recently purchased 5gg and 12gg flatbed knitting machines, which will allow them to produce their own line of Men's and Women's sweaters in-house. Currently they process 25,000lbs of raw wool or approximately 10,000-15,000lbs of yarn per year and have the ability to spin custom-designed yarns from customer's own fibre batch supply.
A robust series of seminars and speakers organized by Lenzing covered a wide range of topics from global sourcing and fashion law to creating email-marketing plans and assessing consumer tastes and interests. A two part series entitled "Fashion 101: How to start a fashion line" taught by Mercedes Gonzales, founder and director of Global Purchasing Companies was especially popular attracting a large crowd of young designers and entrepreneurs.
Several talks addressing problems of pollution, waste, and sustainability reflected the increasing public demand for the fashion industry to control its negative impact on the planet.
Tara St. James of the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator discussed how companies could create a sustainable supply chain following what she calls the 4 pillars of sustainability: People, Planet, Animals, and Empathy. Other educational sessions focused on issues concerning Microplastics and their effect on water supplies and Agroforestry.
Rounding out the show was the Texworld Showcase highlighting the season's color and material trends curated by Texworld's Art Directors Louis Gerin and Gregory Lamaud as well as Craft Jam, a lively section offering attendees the opportunity to participate in embroidery, macramé, and other craft making arts.
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Giving birth in the UK vs the US – more different than you might think
When I speak to my family who are in the US the first topic they bring up is the impending birth of the new Royal Baby. I think the Americans have more baby fever than is currently in the UK. But thinking of Kate, and this being her first baby, delivered privately here in the UK I can't help but think about how different the experience is here, private vs NHS from each other and even more different than the experience in the US.
You're having a baby – how different could it be you might think. Having now experienced both, I can tell you firsthand it's very different. In general the experience in the US is more interventionist. There are more frequent antenatal (called prenatal there ) appointments and at each there are more tests done. The US birth experience is more focused on the prenatal treatment and the development of the baby than the actual birth itself – leaving you with no support or care after the baby is born. I've found that the UK experience is almost the opposite. It is very hands off. Even with a private Consultant OB, there are less frequent antenatal appointments, less testing at each appointment. These appointments seem to be more milestone check-ins to get a general check-up that all is well for Mum and baby, the focus seeming to be more on Mum. Where there is no aftercare in the US, in the UK there is a tremendous amount of aftercare provided and available.
A community Midwife is assigned to you who comes to visit within a day or so of you leaving hospital, and again a few days later and more visits if necessary. She's there to make sure Mum and baby are both recovering and doing ok, remove sutures etc if necessary and private health related aftercare in the home. Following the visit of the Midwife, is a Community Health Visitor, a nurse who has experience with babies. She comes and discusses the health of the baby and mum, breastfeeding, checks the babies weight etc. You can schedule more appointments for them to come by if you like. Our Health Visitor also provided information on free local Mum & Baby support groups and classes provided free or at low cost nearby. These included Baby Massage Classes and Lactation Support Groups amongst others.
As a third time Mum, unused to all of this post-birth attention, I found it actually made me feel rather uncomfortable. I had no way to refuse these visits – which to me felt rather invasive and unnecessary. I can see how being a first time Mum, these visits would be useful or helpful, or if unfamiliar with the healthcare system or country these could be great – but for me, it just felt awkward. I research my physicians and health providers very carefully before choosing them and seeing one so having people turn up with little to no notice, with unknown skills or experience, wanting to discuss my medical details and judge my parenting techniques makes me hugely uncomfortable. The Midwives and Health Visitor whom I met were very nice- my discomfort wasn't with them specifically, it was with the general concept. On the plus side, it was nice not having to schlep to the Dr's office a week after the C-section to get the sutures removed, having it done at home by the Midwife. But, that's about all I found useful.
Besides the pre and postnatal care experiences in having a birth in the US vs UK – the actual delivery in the UK is different than the US. As previously noted, in the UK you can choose to go on the National Health System (NHS) where the birth is provided free of charge as part of your tax funded healthcare, or go privately where you are on a private wing of a hospital in which you pay for a more private and personalized experience. Kate Middleton is currently going private at the Lindo Wing, much like I did at the Kensington Wing of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
The NHS delivery in London hospitals seem to be somewhat of a communal experience. You give birth on a primarily midwife led wing, stay in a room shared by up to half a dozen other mums, and are discharged as quickly as medically possible, often within hours of the birth. From friends who've given birth on the NHS in London, it's adequate, but basic, but difficult if you need peace and quiet or require extra assistance after the birth and there are no baby nurseries. You need to pay attention to your packing list and bring lots of stuff - including bringing your own diapers and cotton wool (or wipes) and from some stories I've heard – some Mums have even had to get their own painkillers.
Giving birth Privately in the UK is a bit closer to the American experience. There are private rooms for each Mum, some private wings have baby nurseries, and all provide more individualized care and support. These are more quiet and relaxing than their American counterpart. You're left alone for the most part, not woken by announcements over the tannoy or constant blood pressure checks throughout the night. Food is generally better than the NHS or a US delivery and offers more choice. (the photo is of my lunch at the Kensington Wing of chicken cesar salad and fresh fruit salad) but private births cost about £10000 – £15000 on average. ($16000-$2400 USD) which is still cheaper than a birth in the US which can cost $20,000-$50,000 for a single birth, more for multiples. (You can read my review Kensington Wing of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London, here.)
Giving birth in the US is like the UK private experience in many ways. You generally have a private room and receive individualized care and support following the birth. Food is ok but depends on the hospital and is the same food provided to all patients. However, like the more interventionist prenatal care, the postnatal care follows suit. From immediately after delivery until the time you're released you are inundated with people and and tests and noise. The nurses check your blood pressure and temperature every couple hours even throughout the night. Dr's and staff are paged over the tannoy and called for urgent medical requests, providing a loud background of noise. Drs, nurses, cleaning staff, food porters, Lactation Consultants, interns and guests provide a near constant stream of people in and out of the hospital room. I think this is what makes the baby nursery necessary – giving Mom even just 30 mins or a few hours of time to rest (even though they'll be awoken to check the blood pressure again ). In the US following a c-section you are required to get up and walk sooner and further than in the UK you are also required to do lung exercises which wasn't required in the UK. One large difference is all of the baby stuff provided for you in the hospital. Diapers, wipes, nasal aspirator, comb, lotions, baby powder, onesie vests and knitted hats and more are all provided for you. But, I guess you can consider it as something you pay for (either you or your insurance) as all of these things are put on your bill. The nurses each time we delivered in the US made sure we packed up all of these supplies and took them with us as we'd already been charged for them. As noted the cost of delivery in the US is quite high when compared to the UK but I guess with all of those people and things they throw at you they need to have them paid for.
All in all – if you're having a normal delivery with no complications you'd probably have a very similar birth experience in any of the situations noted above. Where the major difference would come in would be for a high risk pregnancy or complicated birth. Seeing as how mine have all been high risk and complicated – I've found things I like with both the UK private experience and US experience and would if possible would take the best from both.
For me – I'd prefer the US prenatal (antenatal) experience as I felt I had a better handle on how the pregnancy was progressing and felt more assured about the health of my baby and myself. I'd choose the UK for the actual delivery (in my case c-section), and UK private for the in-hospital recovery which was definitely more restful and restorative than it's US counterpart.
So now you know what Kate is in-store for and how it may be the same or differ from your birth experience.
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China Denies Inspecting U.S. Stealth Helicopter In Pakistan
In a statement, yesterday, China denied a report that Pakistan allowed it to inspect the remnants of the specially modified Black Hawk helicopter that malfunctioned during the Osama bin Laden raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
"Those reports are entirely groundless and very ridiculous," the Chinese defence ministry said in a statement.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate also denied the reports.
The team of Navy Seals that undertook the mission tried to destroy the helicopter as they left on a second chopper. But a significant portion of the tail remained intact.
The Financial Times first reported the story on Sunday, saying Pakistan had let China inspect the chopper and take a sample of the "'stealth' skin" that allowed it to enter Pakistan while avoiding radar detection. The FT said it was yet another sign of the "deep mistrust between Islamabad and Washington."
Voice of America, the broadcasting arm of the U.S. government abroad, has more on Pakistan's denial:
Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told VOA on Monday that neither China nor any other third party had access to the wreckage. Abbas said the wreckage was kept in a secure location under armed guard while in Pakistan's possession. The military spokesman said the media reports were part of a slander campaign against Pakistan.


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Their tips on how to give a good toast work for any speaking occasion: know your audience, be brief, and practice, practice, practice. I'd add to that some advice on the importance of eye contact and ways to quiet your nerves.
The guide also helpfully suggests that you might want to skip the toast altogether, especially if you don't have something different or personal to say. (Author Dan Okrent, quoted in the article: "My failures as a toaster have always been for people I didn't know well enough, and I'll never do that again.") But if you do have to stand up and say a few words, here are some ways to make sure your toast offers something unique.
Have you given a toast that went over well--or brought the occasion to a crashing halt? Share your stories and advice in the comments.
(Regular contributor Becky Ham wrote this post. Let's toast to her!)


text: One of the reasons referring physicians recommend Radiation Therapy Services at Central Massachusetts Cancer Center is because they know we offer the latest, most sophisticated radiation therapy planning and delivery systems. This ensures that you and your Radiation Oncologist can choose the best treatment option given your type of cancer, its stage and location. Why is this so important? The more precisely we can target your tumor site, the lower the risk of side effects and the chance of a recurrence.


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Friday, Nov. 22, 1912. Troy's defending champion New York State League basketball team hosts last-place Utica for a high-scoring affair at the Troy Armory tonight, The Record reports. Based on tonight's game, our basketball writer thinks that Utica will stay in the basement for some time. Coach James Coughlin brings a young team to Troy. Inexperience outweighs potential for now, though the team may have an unlikely star in the form of left forward Benny Sedran. "This young man is about five feet tall and weighs nearly 125 pounds," our writer notes, "He romped around the big court, dazzling even the veteran Andy Suils [Troy's right guard] and making every man who attempted to stop him look foolish. No such speed has ever been seen on the Troy court, and the crowd took kindly to Mr. Sedran's antics in evading the big fellows on the Troy team. If Utica had another Sedran, a good center and a couple of guards possessing more than ordinary ability, the Utes would not finish in last place." Another youngster in the Utica lineup is right forward Garry Schmeelk, who scores the first point of the game on a free throw. That's his only score of the first half; he manages eight in the second. "Schmeelk appears to be too slow to make a star performer and as he rambled around the court seemed to create the impression that he had no definite object in view," our scribe scoffs, "Several times he seemed to be in his own way, but his form may improve with more work. Evidently he is not accustomed to State League basketball." After Schmeelk's opening point, "it was a ramble for the champions, they registering basket after basket in rapid succession. Despite Sedran's frantic work, Utica trails Troy 21-13 at halftime. "When play was resumed Troy quickly attained a long lead and then eased up, being content to keep Utica from making things too warm and allowing the visitors to score as they saw fit." The Trojans probably realize that fans like to see points scored. A crowd of 2,100 at the Armory roots for the underdog Sedran, but leaves satisfied with a 47-33 Troy victory. Basketball's recent local success may be best illustrated by today's Public School Athletic League game between the freshmen and senior classes of Troy High. Age and size confer no advantages on the older students, while the freshmen five, "composed of former public school stars," denies the seniors a single basket. The Class of 1913 is held to just four free throws in a humiliating 33-4 defeat.
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Formula and packaging, an inseparable duo
The path from fundamental research to the finished product involves an ultimate challenge, packaging innovation. This is what ensures that the product will be delivered in the best conditions of performance, safety and practicality.
The formula/packaging duo is a key element in ensuring that an innovative formula provides all its benefits to consumers. However, packaging innovations are much more complex than they appear to be. An innovation like Roller Color eye shadow by Maybelline New York called for the design of a roller bead covered with micro-asperity that would allow the powder to adhere. As for the capsules in the sun product line Solar Expertise by L'Oréal Paris, they were designed specifically to avoid - even when open - any undesired leaking of the product and the possibility of any intrusion of grains of sand. Thanks to pump bottles that do not allow any back flow of air, La Roche-Posay was able to offer preservative-free formulas for sensitive skin.
Thus, L'Oréal's Research & Innovation teams were the originators of many patented technological innovations that allow the product to deliver optimal performance on application.
Mascara, a little gem of technology
The example of volumizing "Million lashes" mascara by L'Oréal Paris perfectly illustrates this approach. It represents the clever balance between a product (namely a texture and a formula) and a high-precision applicator tool. The creamy Million Lashes formula "breaks" on application to become very fluid and coat the lashes with a fine layer of mascara. It also contains an anti-adhesion agent that prevent the lashes from clumping together. As for the brush, equipped with 300 very regular spurs, it makes it possible to precisely individualize each eyelash, resulting in a perfect definition of the lash fringe. Finally, the mascara's performance is made possible by passing the brush through a flexible extractor, so that the brush holds just the right amount of product. The development of this little technological gem called for some 18 months of research and the filing of a number of patents.
L'Oréal's Packaging Research
L'Oréal has dedicated Packaging Innovation teams that work in close collaboration with formulators and suppliers and are in charge of the design and optimization of product packaging in compliance with regulations relating to quality, safety and respect for the environment. Packaging is an area of essential innovation for the group, which files over 70 patents on average per year.


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The boys are playing a game in the backyard which involves all of them getting hit by tennis balls repeatedly. When this happens, they almost always yell "Oh, my nuts!" whether or not there was a direct hit on the package.
I finally went out there and told them that this wasn't something the neighbors probably wanted to hear all afternoon, and I thought the matter was settled.
However, now they're out there yelling "Oh, my testicles!" which, while making me laugh incredibly hard, is probably at about the same level annoying-the-neighbor-wise.


text: Next Gen: Class of 2011 2:00 AM PDT 11/1/2011 by THR staff FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Gretchen Beane Photographer Joe Pugliese lines up a shot of this year's film executives Oct. 19 at Milk Studios in Los Angeles. What is talent? For some, in the ever-evolving business world of Hollywood, it's the ability to see potential before anyone else does. For others, it's a knack for negotiating a deal through complex industry channels. Sometimes, says Fox co-chairman Jim Gianopulos, it's "coming up with the right answer. More often, it's coming up with the right questions. … And if you're smart enough to already have the answer, that's talent." The men and women chosen for THR's 18th annual Next Gen issue demonstrate both talent and success. Their ambition and perseverance have taken them into leadership roles at an age when most others are just getting their start. The 35 on the this year's list represent some of the industry's brightest talent and highest-profile projects; likely, they themselves will be the ones running Hollywood in years to come. (Stacey Snider, Ari Emanuel and Mike De Luca are among the notable earlier honorees.) Behind the scenes, their success is measured by drive, commitment and passion: weekends spent reading scripts, time away from families, holidays celebrated with BlackBerry in hand. "Working in Hollywood is like that old analogy: You don't have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun the person next to you," says Paramount's David Waldman, a 2011 Next Gen honoree. "You're around a lot of type-A people who are going to work extremely hard. When you're starting out in the business, you need to totally immerse yourself in this town." THR is proud to recognize the young professionals who stand out from the crowd: the Next Gen Class of 2011. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME THR staff firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from a rare type of neutron star known as a soft-gamma-ray repeater. Such objects unpredictably send out a series of X-ray and gamma-ray flares.
"At times, this remarkable object has erupted with more than a hundred flares in as little as 20 minutes," said Loredana Vetere, who is coordinating the Swift observations at Pennsylvania State University. "The most intense flares emitted more total energy than the sun does in 20 years."
The object, which has long been known as an X-ray source, lies in the southern constellation Norma. During the past two years, astronomers have identified pulsing radio and X-ray signals from it. The object began a series of modest eruptions on Oct. 3, 2008, then settled down. It roared back to life Jan. 22 with an intense episode.
Because of the recent outbursts, astronomers will classify the object as a soft-gamma-ray repeater -- only the sixth known. In 2004, a giant flare from another soft-gamma-ray repeater was so intense it measurably affected Earth's upper atmosphere from 50,000 light-years away.
Scientists think the source is a spinning neutron star, which is the superdense, city-sized remains of an exploded star. Although only about 12 miles across, a neutron star contains more mass than the sun. The object has been cataloged as SGR J1550-5418.
While neutron stars typically possess intense magnetic fields, a subgroup displays fields 1,000 times stronger. These so-called magnetars have the strongest magnetic fields of any known object in the universe. SGR J1550-5418, which rotates once every 2.07 seconds, holds the record for the fastest-spinning magnetar. Astronomers think magnetars power their flares by tapping into the tremendous energy of their magnetic fields.
"The ability of Fermi's gamma-ray burst monitor to resolve the fine structure within these events will help us better understand how magnetars unleash their energy," said Chryssa Kouveliotou, an astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The object has triggered the instrument more than 95 times since Jan. 22.
Using data from Swift's X-ray telescope, Jules Halpern at Columbia University captured the first "light echoes" ever seen from a soft-gamma-ray repeater. Images acquired when the latest flaring episode began show what appear to be expanding halos around the source. Multiple rings form as X-rays interact with dust clouds at different distances, with closer clouds producing larger rings. Both the rings and their apparent expansion are an illusion caused by the finite speed of light and the longer path the scattered light must travel.
"X-rays from the brightest bursts scatter off of dust clouds between us and the star," Halpern said. "As a result, we don't really know the distance to this object as well as we would like. These images will help us make a more precise measurement and also determine the distance to the dust clouds."
NASA's Wind satellite, the joint NASA-Japan Suzaku mission, and the European Space Agency's INTEGRAL satellite also have detected flares from SGR J1550-5418.
Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Swift's X-Ray Telescope captured an apparent expanding halo around the flaring neutron star SGR J1550-5418. The halo formed as X-rays from the brightest flares scattered off of intervening dust clouds.
(Photo Credit: NASA/Swift/Jules Halpern (Columbia Univ.))


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Saturday, November 25, 2006
Almond Madeleines
My apologies for such a short post today, but I'm dashing off to another Thanksgiving dinner tonight. As I've mentioned before, I like simple base recipes where I can easily change the flavorings. I used my meyer lemon madeleine recipe as a starting point and turned it into an almond madeleine. I replaced some of the flour with almond meal, omitted the lemon zest and added a bit of almond extract. I promise I'll have a proper post next time!
Almond Madeleines
(makes 12)
2 large eggs
1⁄3 cup superfine or baker's sugar
1⁄4 tsp salt
1⁄2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp almond extract
1⁄3 cup all-purpose flour, sifted twice after measuring
3 tbsp almond meal (or finely ground almonds)
4 tbsp (1⁄2 stick) unsalted butter, melted & cooled
Preheat oven to 375°F. Generously butter and flour 12 molds in a madeleine pan.
In the bowl of a standing mixer, combine eggs, sugar and salt. Beat on medium speed until pale, thick and fluffy, about 4-5 minutes. Mix in vanilla and almond extracts.
On low speed, mix in the sifted flour and almond meal until just incorporated. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold in the melted butter until blended.
Fill each mold almost completely full. Bake the madeleines until the tops spring back when lightly touched, 10 to 12 minutes.
Cool in pan for 2 minutes. Remove madeleines from pan and allow them cool completely on cooling rack.
12 comments:
Madeleines are soooo good!
- 11/26/2006
- Brilynn said...
I'm a sucker for molded treats, I need a madeleine pan so I can make things as good as these!
- 11/26/2006
Madeleines are some of my favorite things to eat, they're so light and fluffy, but supremely satisfying!
Ari (Baking and Books)
- 11/26/2006
Lucky you...two Thanksgivings.
- 11/27/2006
Mary, I have been meaning to make madeleines for quite a while. Yous are such an inspiration!
- 11/27/2006
Madeleines might now make it into my holiday tins...yours are an inspiration.
- 11/27/2006
They are the most perfect looking little madelines ever!
- 11/28/2006
Wow, I have to try this recipe!! These almond madeleines look simple wonderful!!
- 11/28/2006
These look so delicious, I have all the ingredients and I'm making these tonight!
- 11/29/2006
They're so cute!!! It's like they're just waiting for me to pick them up and eat them!
- 11/30/2006
- Elly said...
I just made these last night and they were so delicious. Thanks for the recipe! :)
- 8/06/2008
- nandy said...
this is a simple and quik recipie of making madeleines,,,,
1kg-eggs...1kg-sugar..1kg flour..30gm-baking powder,,1kg butter,,,bake it 180c for 9mins,,,
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rodgw wrote:Question: When Butters is asking for "porn murder" phrase what he said really, "porn murder?" or " Pony burguer?" ? And Cartman answer, "That's more I like it." or "That's my locket." ? You see my problem?
You should have your hearing checked. They very clearly said
Butters: Murder porn?
Cartman: That's more like it.
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And the line from Randy "what the f'ing f*ck!", I hope that catches on.
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Big-Will wrote:rodgw wrote:Question: When Butters is asking for "porn murder" phrase what he said really, "porn murder?" or " Pony burguer?" ? And Cartman answer, "That's more I like it." or "That's my locket." ? You see my problem?
You should have your hearing checked. They very clearly said
Butters: Murder porn?
Cartman: That's more like it.
Hey, I did and I have a little hearing problem, loud songs on my life... that's why Iasked, speaking very fast and when Butters started whit, kind a "b", ruined my full understanding. But sorry for ask that.
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I give this episode a 9 out of 10, it was funny for me all the way through, except for the fact the edundant cable guy shtick done one too many times. For me a top 20 episode of all time for some reason, but maybe just because the last episode was so terribly mediocre.
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I like the old-school (pardon the pun) of showing the kids in Mr. Garrison's class. I like how Mr. Garrison pays no attention to the student presentation, and when Wendy complains about Cartman all Garrison knows to do is say that Wendy did a good job on her report - a report that she barely started to give to the class because of Cartman's interruptions
Timmy, Jimmy, all the kids were there, like in Seasons 1-4. Tweek even had a speaking role. And when other kids were shown, 1st grader Dougie was certainly there. Does this mean that sometime in the next 8 episodes we may see General Disarray make an appearance with Prof. Chaos?
I give this episode an 8/10 and not higher only because with so much of the plot centering around the Marsh's and their household, Shelly was noticeably absent.
All in all a great episode. Well done, M&T.
[Now if you can finally bring back the P.A. Production Blogs again].
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Murder documentaries have been common at least since I was a child and yet they rarely receive parody, making them the perfect recipients of South Park treatment. It takes a boring element of life and shows the absurd elements of it we may have overlooked. It also uses it as a stage to once again speak about censorship, a topic that the writers repeatedly return to yet always seem to have something original to say, or at least a new way to say an old point. The contrast between a TV show full of sex and violence that gets respected by parents and a peaceful video game that parents often hate simply because of the medium provided some humor under the surface.
The many surreal elements reminded me for the first time in years that the show was originally inspired by Monty Python was a major influence on the show. South Park often takes common metaphors, like politicians being assh*les or cable companies being in love with themselves and presents them as literally as animation makes possible. Despite how often they go this route, it still gets a laugh from me.
Perhaps they were doing something similar in presenting kids as the moral guardians, in calling such people childish? I'm probably over analyzing this as it could be an example of one of South Park's other favorite tricks, taking what we expect and replacing it with its exact opposite. That or it's just another example of the kids being more adult than the parents.
The episode moved quickly and fit enough in to stop jokes that may have otherwise outstayed their welcome from taking up too much screen time.
They gave the newly introduced side-characters more personality than they usually do, whilst allowing the main characters to be themselves. The boys all had roles that were in character for them but didn't seen to do much. I actually enjoyed Randy in this as i did in their last episode with video game segments. I was glad to see Garrison get a line after seeing him in the credits.
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Oh yea, and Cable Companies SUCK!! I really did appreciate South Park finally ripping on them. (Nice way to really put it to TWC btw...or at least that is what looked like the 'fake' logo they used).
Plusses: Cartman wouldn't let Wendy Talk. I liked the MineCraft parts, and the Investigative Discovery Rip. The Cable Company sh*t, while a little bit too repeatitive was still ROFL.
Minuses: The Mother being pulled out by the stretcher. I mean, blood and gore is good sometimes, but the kid next to her...a kinda sad turnoff. That and the Butters Situation with his parents. Mr. Stotch part was decent, but the Butters Parents killing (in minecraft, while funny) was also a bit concerning and I almost thought that they were REALLY gonna kill off Ms. Stoch. She's a cute character, would have been a shame, so I'm glad they didn't.
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Some parts in this one I thought were great:
"It's probably f'ing Stan!"
"Some like their murder with a side of sexy biscuits!"
Cartman's sleuthing based on the statement "ouchie ouchie, Mommy raped my no-no"
But why does Aaron Hagan sound so echoey? Is it just me or all of his audio clips a little off in quality? And why did the cops only give him a blanket - but no cocoa?
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The bit with the cable company guys was the best. It actually hit really close to home, too, and the best comedy is relate-able. I actually missed out on watching most of the '04 World Series due to technical problems with the cable service Comcast was providing at the time in my area, and when we called them to complain, they claimed the entire neighborhood was having the same problem and basically refused to fix it until it was convenient for them, more or less because "they're the only cable company in town". Even aside from the historical significance of that World Series and how much it "bummed me out" to miss it, my experience with Comcast almost paralleled the boys' and the parents' experience with their local cable company in this episode.
Anyway, 10/10 for those reasons. My favorite of the season as I said, with "Let Go Let Gov" ever so slightly behind.
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Loved the little kids-being-kids moments like Wendy expressing her usual profound-but-true viewpoints, Fatass trolling her a la Breast Cancer Show Ever, and Butters tearfully recollecting his traumatizing Minecraft experience like it was all real life.
The cable guys' sadomasochism got a little old at the end, but the M&T's underlying message is spot on. Monopolized industries churn out crap products, just look at the utility companies, and the airlines are quickly getting there with all the mergers going on.
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Due to the excessive and record-breaking rainfall that occurred early Sunday morning, many fields in an area covering Prairie, Woodruff, Jackson, Monroe, St. Francis, and Cross Counties have been flooded or are still under water. Currently, we are estimating that 100,000 acres of soybeans will need to be replanted, with many more soybean fields receiving some yield damage due to saturated soil conditions. Due to many of the ditches and rivers being at capacity, many of these fields will remain flooded for several more days. Many of the fields that I was able to look at since Monday had soybeans ranging from just emerging to V6. At these early growth stages, soybean plants cannot survive being totally submerged much longer than 24 hours with the hot, sunny weather that we have had since Sunday.
Historically, we have said that planting after June 15 results in a 1 to 2 percent yield loss per day, with the yield loss potential increasing to 2 to 3 percent per day after July 1, and not recommending planting after July 15. However, some new research conducted by Dr. Larry Purcell indicates that this may not be the case. This research will be discussed in more detail below.
For soybean growers that are considering replanting, there are several items that need to be addressed.
Late Season Replant Considerations:
- How long was a field flooded? – Those fields that were only submerged less than 24 hour should be evaluated. If new growth is observed three to four days after the flood water has receded, then these fields may not need to be replanted. Any field submerged more than 24 hours will likely need to be replanted.
- Removal of "old" soybean stands – Many of these flooded fields will possibly need to be reworked prior to replanting. This should remove any surviving soybean plants and any weeds that have emerge after the waters recede. For fields that will not be reworked, consider herbicide options to remove remaining soybean plants and any emerging weeds.
- Weed control – Our recommendations would be to plant a Liberty Link soybean variety. Growers will have more weed control options with the Liberty Link system than with Roundup Ready or conventional systems. Growers should also take into consideration what herbicides and rates have been applied to these fields so far this year. Be sure to not apply rates over the labeled amounts for the season. Also, be sure to look at the Plant-Back Intervals for the herbicides to be used. These can be found in the MP519 Row-Crop Plant-Back Intervals for Common Herbicides. Many of the common soybean herbicides have as much as a 10 month plant-back to other commodities, and 10 months from July 15 would be May 15 of the following year.
- Maturity group – Below are Dr. Larry Purcell's comments on a research project evaluating soybean maturity groups by planting dates. For the past two years, his research indicates that late-MG IV varieties had the highest yield potential planted in July than the other maturity groups evaluated.
A large soybean project funded jointly by the United Soybean Board and the MidSouth Soybean Board was conducted at eight locations in the US Midsouth in 2012 and 10 locations in 2013, with four planting dates at each location, and 16 soybean cultivars from MG 3 to 6. The MG 4 cultivars had the highest yields, or were not significantly different from the highest yield, in 100% of the environments studied in both early- and late-planting. When considering only locations in east-Arkansas and nearby experimental sites (Rohwer and Keiser, AR, Stoneville, MS; Portageville, MO, and Milan, TN) results indicate that average soybean yields were highest with MG 4 soybean cultivars (70 bu ac-1) with plantings from June 1to June 15. For plantings from June 15 to June 30, average yields were nearly identical (50 to 51 bu ac-1) for MG 4, 5, and 6 cultivars. Finally, with plantings in July, average yields were highest with MG 4 soybeans (50 bu ac-1).
Figure 1 shows the average yield over all 18 environments for MG 3 through 6 cultivars for early and late planting dates. The asterisks above the data points indicate that the early-planting dates were significantly greater than the late planting dates. The solid symbols, within the early or late planting dates, indicate that the average MG yields were not different from the yield of the MG with the greatest yield.
|Maturity group
|# of environments
|1 – 15 June
|15 – 30 June
|1 – 17 July
Table 1. Average yields by maturity group and planting period in 2012 and 2013 for Rohwer and Keiser, AR; Stoneville, MS; Portageville, MO; and Milan, TN.
|Maturity group
|# of environments
|1 – 15 June
|15 – 30 June
|1 – 17 July
Table 2. Average yields by maturity group and planting period in 2012 and 2013 for Keiser, Rohwer and Stoneville only.
- Seeding rate – Our recommendations for Full-Season soybean production ranges from 110,000 – 185,000 seed/ac. For late plantings, we recommend increasing your normal seeding rate by 10 – 15%. The reason for this increased seeding rate is to obtain quicker canopy closure and increase the number of nodes per acre since the number of nodes per plant will be reduced due to shortened growing season.
- Row spacing – At this point in the planting window, our recommendations would be to plant on narrow rows less than 20 inches. Narrow rows will increase the likelihood of canopy closure. Complete canopy closure will decrease weed competition, increase irrigation efficiency, increase light interception, and possibly decrease late-season insect problems.
- Late season pest concerns – Scout, Scout, Scout and Scout. When considering an extremely late replant of soybeans, growers should budget in at least 1-2 applications of an insecticide and a fungicide. With the tremendous numbers of soybean insects we are currently expecting in the state, these late-planted fields will more than likely need insecticides applications.
- Average frost date – For the area affected by the flooding, the average frost date is November 1. Planted in mid-July, mid-MG IV and early-MG V's soybean varieties will require 110 to 115 days to reach R8. These late plantings will be reaching maturity very close to the average frost date.